Andrea Gardner works in the realm of staged photography and mixed media sculpture.

For her photography she creates diorama-like set-ups in her studio which consists of old paintings, artificial plants, taxidermied animals, soil, insects and people. Both her photography and her sculpture explore our relationship with animals, nature and the environment.

Reading Rooms is an exhibition of literary artworks by Catherine Macdonald, Sophie Klerk, Katherine Claypole, Ana Terry and Julian Priest. Each artist has been invited to create a work that communicates ideas through language, discusses what language is or deals with the material of literary endeavour.

Mike Marsh led a stencil workshop at the Green Bench, Tuesday 26th April 2011, 1pm-4pmPeople were invited to bring their own material and images.At the end of the workshop the gallery walls were coved with the final stencils.

An exhibition of oil paintings, photographs, video and assemblage that explores relationships between art and oil. The exhition is timed to coincide with Energetics and Informatics - the Ada Symposium 2010, Whanganui.

Michael Poa (One River), Julian Priest (The Greenbench) and friends invite you to join us in a collaborative performance artwork documenting a hikoi that references the Whanganui story of the relationship between Ruapehu and Taranaki.

Overview

Slowflow 2010 was a trip down the Whanganui River, Aotearoa/New Zealand between Jan 21st and Jan 31st 2010. Slowflow will be run again in 2011 dates to be announced soon.

Slowflow invited artists, technologists, writers and environmentalists on a 10 day journey down the Whanganui River by double hulled 22 person waka haurua (canoe) and bicycle, creating a setting for a flow of conversations - Te Ia Kōrero.

PAPERWORK is a collaborative exhibition by Sophie Klerk and Katherine Claypole. PAPERWORK evolved from weekly studio sessions held by the two artists over the last few months involving discussion of ideas and experimentation with different processes and media. The work shown is a meeting point, a contexture, a merger of both artists' individual styles that have now become interwoven.

Overview

Slowflow invites artists, technologists and environmentalists on a 6 day journey down the Whanganui River by double hulled 22 person waka haurua (canoe) and bicycle, creating a setting for a flow of conversations - Te Ia Kōrero.